— The error prone nature of wireless links often necessitates the use of a link layer protocol to ensure acceptable application performance. While traditional link layers assume ...
Advances in networking and content delivery systems are enabling new challenging provisioning scenarios where a growing number of users access Video on Demand (VoD), possibly whil...
Wide-area service replication is becoming increasingly common, with the emergence of new operational models such as content delivery networks and computational grids. This paper d...
Bogdan C. Popescu, Bruno Crispo, Andrew S. Tanenba...
Existing languages provide good support for typeful programming of standalone programs. In a distributed system, however, there may be interaction between multiple instances of ma...
Peter Sewell, James J. Leifer, Keith Wansbrough, F...
—There exists a certain level of ambiguity regarding whether network coding can further improve download performance in P2P content distribution systems, as compared to commonly ...